December 2017

October 2017

• ‘Abandoned and Fearful: Former Afghan NATO Translators ‘Living a Nightmare”, Sputnik News, 10/15/17
• ”I would be killed by today’: Some local immigrants risked lives to aid U.S. forces in Iraq’, West Fargo Pioneer, Helmut Schmidt, 01/15/17
  
• ‘The Long, Frustrating Fight to Get an Iraqi Interpreter Out of Baghdad and Into the U.S.’, Reason, Joe Coon, 10/15/17

September 2017

• ‘Bipartisan Senate resolution would help combat translators’, Fox News, Fox and Friends, 09/04/17

• ‘Combat Translators Saved Their Lives. Now These Veterans Are Fighting to Bring Them to the U.S.’, NBC News, Kalhan Rosenblat, 09/04/17

August 2017

• ‘The Afghanistan heroes who event haven’t gotten a thank you’, Washington Post, Editorial board, 08/25/17
• ‘Standing Together’, Real Clear Defense, Alejandro Villanueva, 08/23/17

July 2017

• ‘Hansen: Afghan interpreter now has home in Omaha, thanks to friends who fought for years to bring him here’, Omaha World-Herald, Matthew Hansen, 07/25/17
• ‘OPINION | Loyal war translators earned US immigrant visas’, The Hill, Ryan Crocker, 07/24/17
  
• ‘US soldiers welcome Afghan translator who saved their life: See the tearful reunion’, Fox News, Jennifer Griffin, 07/17/17

June 2017

• ‘Former Afghan interpreter hopes to find sanctuary in U.S. with help of Cornell student’, The Ithaca Voice, Kelsey O’Connor, 06/28/17

• ‘This Afghan man served 3 years as a translator for the military — now he’s a US Marine’, Buisness Insider, Sgt. Jessica Quezada, 06/09/17

March 2017

• ‘‘We are not safe here’: Afghan interpreters left behind by US troops cry for help (EXCLUSIVE)’, RT, 03/29/17
• ‘An Iraqi translator for the US military is now stuck in Greece’, PRI, Jacob Resneck, 03/24/17
  
• ‘Visas are running out for the US military’s Afghan interpreters’, PRI, Rachel Gotbaum, 03/15/17
• ‘Special Visas for Afghan Interpreters Are Running Out’, Foreign Policy, Kavitha Surana, 03/10/17

February 2017

• ‘Visas for Interpreters’, NYT, David Rumsey, 02/16/17
  ‘Steelers OT Alejandro Villanueva had a heartwarming reunion with his Afghan interpreter’, For The Win, Andrew Joseph, 02/13/17
• ‘I risked my life for the U.S. Army in Iraq. But when I came here, I was nearly sent back.’, The Washington Post, Hameed Darweesh, 02/10/17
• ‘US Army officer brings Afghan interpreter to live with him’, BBC, 02/09/17
• ‘Iraq War veterans see Trump’s travel ban as harmful to U.S., Iraqi troops’, San Antonio Express News, Martin Kuz, 02/08/17
• ‘For Iraqi Military Interpreters, Trump Travel Ban Chaos Is ‘Life and Death’’, Foreign Policy, Kavitha Surana and Molly O’Toole, 02/06/17
• ‘Petraeus: ‘Moral Obligation’ to Allow Iraqi, Afghan Translators Into U.S.’, The Washington Free Beacon, Morgan Chaflant, 02/04/17
• ”From Being Alone To A Whole Family,’ An Iraqi Interpreter’s Dream Fulfilled’, NPR, NPR staff, 02/03/17
• ‘A veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan wars: We must protect our Muslim allies’, Seattle Times, Jim Grant, 02/03/17
• ‘Visa Ban Amended to Allow Iraqi Interpreters Into U.S.’, NYT, David Zucchino, 02/02/17

January 2017

• ‘Afghan translator now in Denver vetted for 2 years before special visa was approved’, Denver 7 ABC News, Blair Miller, 01/31/17
• ‘Refugee ban trapped my Iraqi translator: Veteran’, USA Today, Allen Vaught, 01/31/17
• ‘Iraqi translators who served the US military are desperate for an exemption to Trump’s travel ban’, PRI, Jacob Wirtschafter, 01/31/17
• ‘Afghans who helped the U.S. military worry they, too, will suffer under Trump’s refugee ban’, LA Times, Shashank Bengali, 01/30/17
  
• ‘The Iraqis who feel betrayed by America’, Financial times, Erika Solomon, Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Simeon Kerr, 01/29/17
• ‘The Iraqi Heroes Left Behind by Trump’s Immigration Ban’, Daily Beast, Tim Mak, 01/28/17
• ‘Trump’s refugee ban also affects Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who helped American servicemen’, The Blaze, Sarah Lee, 01/28/17
• ‘Afghan Translators Hope U.S. Visas Will Arrive Before The Taliban Does’, Huffington Post, Elise Blanchard, 01/18/17